In February of 2008, he was a major speaker at World Conference on Develoment of Cities, held in Porto Alegre City, Brazil.

In 1952, Dawson was the featured speaker at the first annual conference of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (a civil rights organization), held in the all-black town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi.

One speaker who endorsed such an approach at the Harlem hearing, held by Mr. Bloomberg's hastily formed commission to revise the charter, was former Mayor Edward I. Koch.

Uslan was the honorary speaker at the 2006 Indiana University commencement ceremonies, held on May 6, 2006.

Uslan was the honorary speaker at the 2012 Westfield State University commencement ceremonies, held on May 19, 2012.

The other speakers at the forum, held in Manhattan at the Pierre Hotel, were Paul M. Ostergard, president of the General Electric Foundation, and Dr. Thomas A. Kochan, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Masschusetts Institute of Technology.

The main speaker at a reception celebrating those achievements, held in the luminous white nave of the little church, was Ruth W. Messinger, the Manhattan Borough President, a politician almost as down on her luck, politically speaking, as the men, women and children the church looks after.

Headphones are essentially speakers held over the ear by a band or wire worn on the head.

A featured speaker at the postwar 1868 Democratic National Convention, held in New York, was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a founder of the Ku Klux Klan.